VMware Workstation and Fusion are now free for everyone

VMware made its Fusion and Workstation gentleware that produces and regulates virtual machines free for personal use earlier this year. Now, the company proclaimd that as of Monday, it’s free for everyone, including commercial customers. Also, the Fusion (for Macs) and Workstation (for Windows and Linux) Pro versions are no lengthyer useable for obtain.

Broadcom’s $61 billion acquisition of VMware in 2022 was one of the hugegest tech acquisitions ever. Since then, it has bundled the company’s products to “clear up its portfolio” and dropped many existing SKUs. It has already proclaimd an finish to recommending VMware perpetual licensing for standalone recommendings to push go inpelevates towards its Cdeafening Foundation or vSphere Foundation subscription products.

However, in this Business Insider alert alludeed by Tom’s Hardware, some business customers claimed they’ve seen prices spike follotriumphg the acquisition as the company intensifyes on subscriptions and its most lucrative customers to incrmitigate annual revenue. One unnamed corporate customer quoted by BI shelp their prices incrmitigated by 175 percent and contrastd the situation to being “held for ransom” because of the difficulty in possibly switching to someslfinisherg else.

Commercial shrinks will remain in effect for businesses, and they will get the same level of help thcimpolite the finish of their shrinks. However, VMware is discontinuing its help ticketing for troubleshooting after that and says instead to use the community, recordation, and help articles useable online.